Hello, Cobbers in Australia and New Zealand. It's head gamble here. I'm very excited to

say that I will be on tour in your countries this year, 2023 in April and May. You must

come and see me. That's the rules. If you're listening to this, you've got to come. I

will be in Melbourne from the 11th of 23rd of April, 25th of April, I'll be in Perth, 26th

of April, I'll be in Perth, 29th and 30th of April, I'll be in Sydney. Second of May,

I'll be in Brisbane, sixth of May, I'll be in Auckland in New Zealand, ninth May, I'll

be in Wellington in New Zealand, Edgamble.co.uk for tickets. I will see you at one of those shows.

This is the law, Cobbers. Welcome to the Off-Menu podcast, taking the ice cream cone of conversation,

filling it up with the soft serve of great humour, sticking in a flake of friendship and

showing down. Yes, that's why you've ever done the best one. That is Edgamble there. My

name is James A. Castle. This is the Off-Menu podcast. We run a dream restaurant and we invite

a guest every single week and ask them their favourite ever, start a man-cores dessert,

try dish and drink, not in that order. And this week, the first episode of series, nine is

Paul Mesco. Paul Mesco, of course. Wonderful actor, James. Wow.

Wonderful actor. Phenomenal actor. We all watched a lot of

box sets, a lot of TV series and binge TV, a lot during the lockdowns. One of the first

series that we did at My Flat was normal people. I was completely engrossed in it and completely

engrossed in his performance. What a performance. Sex-y. You were unable to watch it. Yes, because

I'd already watched quite a lot of sex-based drama, the first series of Bridgerton and industry,

both quite heavy sexual content. And there are a lot of people delivering parcels, a lot

of neighbours walking past and I'd already had to shut my blinds and the last thing I

wanted was to pop the blinds open and then whack on normal people or indeed, quack off normal

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